Here is a God who is love, who is so full of life and blessing that for eternity He has been overflowing with it. That is the triune, living God: a Father, whose very being has eternally been about loving His Son, pouring out the Spirit of love and life on Him. In John 17:24, Jesus speaks of how the Father loved Him even before the creation of the world. How wonderfully different it is with the triune God. They may demand our worship, but they cannot win our hearts. And so, not being essentially loving, such gods are inevitably less than lovely. Love for others, then, cannot go very deep in them if they can go for eternity without it. Before creation, having no other persons with whom they could commune, they must have been entirely alone. Single-person gods must, by definition, have spent eternity in absolute solitude. Whether it be God, money, sex, or fame, we live for and love what captures our hearts.īut what kind of God could outstrip the attractions of all other things? Could any unitary, single-person god do so? Hardly, or at least not for long. And of course, he was quite right, for we always love what seems most attractive to us. ‘It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.’ So wrote the great hymn writer Isaac Watts.
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